Aide to Ivory Coast parliament speaker arrested over arms cache
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Ivory Coast authorities arrested a senior aide to parliament speaker Guillaume Soro on Monday, a prosecutor said, accusing him of possessing and distributing weapons to destabilize the state during an army mutiny earlier this year.
Sri Lanka arrests two over hacking of Taiwan bank accounts
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Two people have been arrested in Sri Lanka for suspected money laundering from a Taiwanese bank whose computer system was hacked to enable illicit transactions abroad, police said on Monday.
Far right wants Austria to join group of anti-immigrant states
VIENNA (Reuters) – The far right Freedom Party (FPO), set to become kingmaker after elections on Oct. 15, wants Austria to join the Visegrad Group of central and east European states opposed to immigration.
Lebanon passes disputed tax hikes to fund public sector pay rise
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s parliament approved contentious taxes needed to finance a public sector pay rise on Monday and Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri warned the alternative was a collapse of the Lebanese pound in six months.
We’re all human: ‘Nudge’ theorist Thaler wins economics Nobel
STOCKHOLM/CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. academic Richard Thaler, who helped popularize the idea of “nudging” people towards doing what was best for them, won the 2017 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for his work on how human nature affects supposedly ration…
Sixteen killed in attacks on remote Mozambique port: media
MAPUTO (Reuters) – Gun battles last week between police and attackers in a remote northern Mozambican port killed 16 people, including two police officers, local media reported.
Former Salvadoran president Calderon dies at 69
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – Former Salvadoran President Armando Calderon, who helped oversee the Central American country’s transition from a bloody civil war to peace in the 1990s, has died at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer, his family said on …
Vampire scare prompts U.N. pullout from southern Malawi
LILONGWE (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Monday it has pulled staff out of two districts in southern Malawi where a vampire scare has triggered mob violence in which at least five people have been killed.
Ethnic land dispute forces thousands to flee in Ivory Coast cocoa belt
GUIGLO, Ivory Coast (Reuters) – An ethnic-fueled land dispute has driven thousands of farmers off illegal plantations in Ivory Coast’s main cocoa belt, threatening the start of the harvest in the world’s top producer.
NATO launches Black Sea force as latest counter to Russia
CRAIOVA, Romania (Reuters) – NATO launched a new multinational force in Romania on Monday to counter Russia along its eastern flank and to check a growing Russian presence in the Black Sea following the Kremlin’s 2014 seizure of Crimea.
